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This article shows you why AWS is against MongoDB. The content is concise and easy to understand. It will definitely brighten your eyes. I hope you can get something through the detailed introduction of this article.

Recently, AWS announced the official launch of the document database service: DocumentDB. AWS DocumentDB is a document database service that supports MongoDB workloads, and the meaning of being hard against MongoDB is very obvious.

Why do you say the two families are against each other?

This is because in October, MongoDB announced the transfer of open source licenses from GNU AGPLv3 to SPPL (Server Side Public License), which clearly meant that all cloud service providers that used MongoDB databases for free had to buy License or give back to the community. The DocumentDB launched by AWS, knowing the reason why MongoDB modified the license, chose to bypass the new license policy of MongoDB in a way that is compatible with the old version of MongoDB 3.6API.

Big data online before "from falling in love to killing each other, cloud computing open source" free "era is coming to an end? As mentioned in the article, in the context of cloud computing becoming an oligopoly, open source software companies have begun to change their license agreements to protect their own interests. The games and conflicts between cloud service providers and open source software companies will only increase in 2019.

As we all know, MongoDB is a leader in the field of open source databases. According to the database popularity index published by DB-Engines, MongoDB is currently the top five databases and the top three open source databases, while in the field of NoSQL databases, MongoDB is the leading manufacturer. It can be said that the dispute between MongoDB and AWS is a typical microcosm of the current cloud computing "open source" dispute.

AWS said that while MongoDB does a good job in terms of functionality, the complexity of configuring and managing MongoDB clusters on a large scale makes it difficult for users to quickly scale out matching high-performance read and write operations for high-performance applications. To this end, AWS was redesigned to provide users with the performance, scalability, and availability required to run mission-critical (mission-critical) MongoDB workloads on a large scale.

As AWS said, DocumentDB can be a fast, scalable, highly available and fully managed document database service that allows users to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB using MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools as they do, and enjoy better performance, scalability, and availability without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure.

This is the fact that cloud service providers with strong technical capabilities can provide better products and services after optimizing and improving open source products, but they are "stretched" in terms of feedback from the open source community. Strong technical capabilities and economies of scale enable cloud service providers to better commercialize open source software projects and quickly reap considerable benefits.

Objectively speaking, although AWS is now actively involved in the open source community, DocumentDB's move is not very friendly to the open source world. MongoDB, which has spent more than $300m on research and development over the past decade, clearly does not want to see this continue. For AWS DocumentDB,MongoDB, MongoDB 3.6API has a history of more than 2 years, but there are too many new features, such as ACID transactions, global clustering and mobile synchronization.

Cloud computing giants, in addition to seeing more and more of them in a variety of open source projects, some high-quality open source software companies may become potential acquisition targets. In addition to modifying the licensing methods, open source software companies also need to explore a more in line with the development of open source commercialization, so as to ensure the prosperity of open source projects and support themselves.

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